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• Top Hollywood studios agree on standards for digital films

  - 2005-07-28

  NEW YORK -- Digital cinema, the long-awaited technology to make movies in the theater more vivid and versatile, took a big step from fantasy to reality Wednesday. All of Hollywood's top studios endorsed a set of technical specifications defining how sharp digital films must be and creating mechanisms to...

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• Oscar snubs Hollywood studios in favour of independent flicks

  - 2004-01-28

  LOS ANGELES AFP ? In nominations marked as much by snubs as by plaudits, Oscar turned his back on Hollywood's big studios this year and instead gave a big boost to low-budget independent cinema. In a demonstration of the golden guy's new sophistication and worldliness, Academy Awards voters Tuesday...

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• Web Pirates Already Looting Top Films

  - 2001-07-16

  Hollywood studios worry that Internet video on demand will lead to piracy, but the digital copyright enforcement firm MediaForce says the barn door is already wide open. Movies are being heavily pirated, costing studios an estimated $2.5 billion a year, says the company. Top titles now available on the Web...

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• Technicolor Develops The Even Bigger Picture

  - 1970-01-01

  Technicolor, the world s leading processor of motion picture film, announced today the acquisition of Consolidated Film Industries CFI for $48m in cash. CFI is a Hollywood-based film processor specialising in giant screen, large film formats for a wide range of customers, including IMAX.IMAX is...

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